Dpyad sgom

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Key Term	dpyad sgom
Topic Variation	analytical meditation
Hover Popup Choices	analytical meditation; che gom; dpyad sgom
In Tibetan Script	དཔྱད་སྒོམ་
Wylie Tibetan Transliteration	dpyad sgom
Tibetan Phonetic Rendering	che gom
English Standard	analytical meditation
Karl Brunnhölzl's English Term	analytical meditation
Richard Barron's English Term	investigative meditation
Jeffrey Hopkin's English Term	analytical meditation
Ives Waldo's English Term	analytical investigation
Alternate Spellings	dbyad sgom
Term Type	Noun
Source Language	Tibetan
Basic Meaning	Analytical meditation is a technique involving critical analysis that focuses the mind on a specific contemplation such as impermanence.
Has the Sense of	The practical approach to gaining incontrovertible conceptual certainty is called analytical meditation or superior insight. (Brunnhölzl, The Center of the Sunlit Sky, 29) "Another division of meditation is into “the analytical meditation of scholars” and “the resting meditation of mendicants,” or simply analytical meditation and resting meditation. The analytical meditation of scholars refers to the intellectual examination of all phenomena through reasoning. There are two key terms here: “discriminating knowledge” and “personally experienced wisdom.” The first step in this analytical meditation is to cultivate discriminating knowledge. This refers to all the levels of increasingly refined inferential valid cognition that are based on reasoning and developed through studying, reflecting, and meditating." (Brunnhölzl, The Center of the Sunlit Sky, page 279) "The general scope of analytical meditation encompasses all of the teachings of the Buddha, starting from contemplating impermanence and the preciousness of human existence up through ascertaining the two kinds of identitylessness. Resting meditation includes all types of meditations in which the conclusions achieved through preceding investigation become absorbed by the mind." (Brunnhölzl, The Center of the Sunlit Sky, page 281)
Definitions
Tshig mdzod Chen mo	stong nyid sgom pa'i tshul zhig ste/ bdag med pa'i don la shes rab kyis so sor dpyad nas spros pa thams cad dang bral ba'i dbyings su mnyam par 'jog pa'o/
Simplified English Usage Example:	"Furthermore, broadly speaking, if [we look at this] from the perspective of the use of the terms “analysis” and “resting,” meditations that involve critical investigation must be considered analytical meditation, and meditations during which we settle into the natural state and rest must be resting meditation." (Dakpo Tashi Namgyal, Moonbeams of Mahamudra, Callahan translation, 89)
sutra/śastra quote:	If you discriminate that phenomena are identityless And meditate by discriminating them in this way, This is the cause for the result of attaining nirvāṇa. Peace will not come about through any other cause.
sutra/śastra quote source:	pp 273, Brunnhölzl, Karl, The Center of the Sunlit Sky: Madhyamaka in the Kagyü Tradition. Nitartha Institute Series. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 2004.

Analytical meditation is a technique involving critical analysis that focuses the mind on a specific contemplation, such as impermanence.

Analytical meditation is a technique involving critical analysis that focuses the mind on a specific contemplation, such as impermanence.

Analytical meditation is a technique involving critical analysis that focuses the mind on a specific contemplation, such as impermanence.

In the Buddhist literature on pramāṇa, it refers to cognition that correctly apprehends its object without any deception or mistake. Such correct cognition include direct perception and inferential cognition.

Though it can simply be used as the expression "I" or "me", in Indian thought the notion of self refers to a permanent, unchanging entity, such as that which passes from life to life in the case of people, or the innate essence (svabhāva) of phenomena.

Along with Yogācāra, it is one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Nāgārjuna around the second century CE, it is rooted in the Prajñāpāramitā Sūtras, though its initial exposition was presented in Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā.

The Kagyu school traces its origin to the eleventh-century translator Marpa, who studied in India with Nāropa. Marpa's student Milarepa trained Gampopa, who founded the first monastery of the Kagyu order. As many as twelve subtraditions grew out from there, the best known being the Karma Kagyu, the Drikung, and the Drukpa.